Fight breast cancer with Omega-3
Most of the fat in the American diet comes from meat, dairy products, poultry, fish and vegetable oil. But it is important to understand that all fats are not created equal. Saturated fats, including animal fats such as lard and butter, as well as fat from some plant sources, such as [...]
Omega 3 diets
For years, we’ve heard that far causes heart attacks, high cholesterol, and weight gain, lint we now know that certain types of fat actually protect us from high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
Omega 3 fatty acids help lower bad LDL cholesterol, raise good HDL, cholesterol, lower triglycerides (a type of blood fat), [...]
Omega 3 & 6 – The good fat
Much has to be learned about the functions of linoleic acid (also known as omega 6) and linolenic acid (also known as omega 3) a term you may recall from the fish-oil craze a few years back). But scientists believe that these essential fatty acids govern growth, vitality and [...]
Fight depression with Omega 3
During this past century there has been a marked increase in the lifetime risk for major depression with a decreasing age of onset. Over the same time period there have been significant changes in the intake of dietary fats, with substantially more saturated and trans fats being consumed, and less of [...]
Omega 3 facts
You need to know that there are two stories on fats. There arc fats that predispose to heart attacks and strokes (because they make our platelets more sticky), but there are others that protect us from heart attacks and strokes. There are fats that kill and fats that heal. So let us talk [...]
Omega 3 fatty acids
The case for fish oil dates back more than 20 years, when studies showed relatively few heart problems among Japanese who ate a lot of seafood. Similar benefits were later found among Greenland Eskimos, and after two decades of follow-up, a study last year in the New England Journal of Medicine reported [...]
